IES 2008-10 Grant & Fellowship Recipients
IES offers fellowships each year for outstanding UC entering graduate students who demonstrate an interest in modern European studies. The nominating department provides tuition and fee waivers for students who are selected. These fellowships attract the finest students from across the country.
2008-2009
Viviana Cois, UCB, Italian Studies
Phillip Henry, UCB, French
Julia Nelsen, UCB, Comparative Literature
Margaret O’Donnell, UCB, History
Laura Wagner, UCB, Comparative Literature
2009-2010
John Boonstra, UCB, History
Jordan Greenwald, UCB, Comparative Literature
William Ryan Hubert, UCB, Political Science
Kevin Kenjar, UCB, Anthropology
IES offers predissertation and dissertation support to UC graduate students who have advanced to candidacy and are prepared to write on a European topic. Recipients may apply the funds to travel expenses related to a preliminary or final field and archival research trip in Europe.
2008-2009
Megan Barber, UCSB, History, Students in the Streets: The Politics of Protest in Vichy France
Willy Jou, UCI, Political Science, Left-Right Orientations in New Democracies: Causes, Contents, and Consequences
Jennifer L. Allen, UCB, History, Stumbling through a Memory Landscape: The Stolpersteine and Generational Layers of Holocaust
Rachel Carmen Ceasar, UCB/UCSF, Medical Anthropology, Awakening Silence: The Investigation of a Silenced Genocide in Spain
Kfir Cohen, UCB, Comparative Literature, Commodified Ethnicities, Literature as a Site of Social Negotiation
Sarah A. Cramsey, UCB, History, Czechoslovakians on the World Stage: Karel Lisicky and his Thirty Years of Diplomacy
Michael J. D’Arcy V, UCB, Medical Anthropology, Liturgies of Sanity: Psychosis, Anti-Psychosis, and Subjectivity in the Republic of Ireland
Kristin Dickinson, UCB, Comparative Literature, Canonicity and Visibility in the Archive: New Perspectives on Turkish-German Migration and Literature
Paul Dobryden, UCB, German, Fighting for Attention: German Modernity and the Problem of Distraction
Theochairs Grigoriadis, UCB, Political Science, Opium for People, Equality for Profit: Religion, Finance, and Social Redistribution in Germany
Ashley Carroll Leyba, UCB, History, A “Most Rational Amusement”: A Social History of the Eighteenth-Century Provincial Theater
India Mandelkern, UCB, History, Back to Nature: The Formation of Modern Exercise Regimes in Interwar Europe
Hannah Murphy, UCB, History, Old Age in Early Modern Germany
Akasemi Newsome, UCB, Political Science, Corporatism, Unemployment, and the Representation of Immigrant Interests in Denmark
Douglas Michael O’Reagan, UCB, History, Communication and Translation: Scientific and Technical Intelligence during the Cold War in Central and Eastern Europe
Alina Polyakova, UCB, Sociology, Welfare States in Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence or a “New World” of Welfare State Capitalism?
Street, Alexander, UCB, Political Science, Legislating for Integration in Britain and Germany
Chloe Thurston, UCB, Political Science, The Politics of Non-standard Employment in Western Europe
Luis Avy Valladares, UCB, Italian Studies, Mapping the Cinematic Landscape of Italian Migrant Cinema
2009-2010
Philippe Duhart, UCLA, Sociology, Negotiating an End to Terrorism: Success and Failure in the Northern Ireland and Basque Peace Processes, 1990-2007
Heidi Nichols Haddad, UC Irvine, Political Science, In Whose Interest? Third Party Participation of Non-state Actors at International Judicial Bodies
Alice Goff, UCB, History, Sensing the Public Museum in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Tehila Sasson, UCB, History, “There’s No Place Like Home”: The Concept of Home and Homelessness in Post-war Britain and Germany
Anne Clara Schenderlein, UC San Diego, History, Negotiating German-Jewish Identities: The German Besuchsprogramme
Micharl St. Clair, UCB, German, Archaeological Support for a Germanic Y-Chromosome Haplogroup
Daniel Viragh, UCB, History, Curious Subculture: The Jews of Dualist Hungary
2009-2010
Lela Gibson, UCLA, History, Austria, Prussian, and Ottoman Encounters in the Age of Goethe
Alex Street, UCB, Political Science, Citizenship Deferred in Germany and Austria
2009-2010
Mark Keck-Szajbel, UCB, History, The Borders of Friendship: Transnational Travel and Tourism in East Central Europe, 1972-1989
2009-2010
Shaun Jacob Halper, UCB, History, Jews in the Age of Homosexual Emancipation: 1897-1948
The FLAS program is a highly competitive fellowship funded by the US Department of Education that ensures continued national competence in modern foreign languages and International & Area Studies. (Not offered in 2011-12).
2008-09
Madeleine Cohen, Comparative Literature, Yiddish
Monica Hidalgo, Scandinavian Studies, Danish
Roger Lemon, Architecture and Urban & Regional Planning, German
James Skee, History, German
Benjamin Urwand, History, German
Summer 2009
Jessica Stevenson-Stewart, Art History, Dutch
Elizabeth Carter, Political Science, Italian
Craig Schuetze, French
Julie Ward, Hispanic Languages & Literature, Italian
Noah Kaye, Ancient History, Modern Greek
Ricardo Lopez, Romance Languages & Literature, Italian
Benjamin Mier-Cruz, Scandinavian Studies, German
Kimberly Twist, Political Science, French
Diana Greenwold, Art History, German
2009-2010
Margot Wagner, French Studies, French
Rachel Ceasar, Medical Anthropology, Spanish
Kfir Cohen, Comparative Literature, French
Elizabeth Carter, Political Science, Italian
Joy Crosby, Theater & Performance Studies, French
Summer 2010
Jesse Chapman, Chinese, French
Matthew Culler, Art History, Italian
Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Interdisciplinary Studies, Portuguese
Mark Hunter, Public Health , French
Noah Kaye, Ancient History, Modern Greek
Sara Lopus, Demography, Portuguese
William Ma, Art History, French
Margaret O’Donnell, History, Yiddish
Travis Wilds, French Studies, German
2009-2010
Vinod K. Aggarwal, UCB, Political Science, “Politics, Policy, and Policy-Making in the European Union”
2008-2009
Ryan Calder, UCB, Sociology, From Mit Ghamr to the Dow Jones Citigroup Sukuk Index: The Evolution of Modern Islamic Finance
Larisa Mann, UCB, Jurisprudence & Social Policy, Listening to Law, Getting Law to Listen: Copyright and Musical Practice in Jamaica
2009-2010
Desmond Fitz-Gibbons, UCB, History, The Land Market in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Matthew Sergi, UCB, English and Medieval Studies, Recreation and Festival in the Chester Plays, c. 1400-1578
2008-2009
John Chenoweth, UCB, Anthropology, Religion and Daily Life: Slavery and Quakerism in the British Caribbean
Kristen Podolak, UCB, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Capability Brown’s Water Designs: Historical Analysis and Serpentine Form
2009-2010
Sumitra Ranganathan, UCB, Music, Reclaiming Diversity through Performance: North Indian Dhrupad
Benjamin Saltzman, UCB, English, Writing Friendship, Mourning the Friend in Late Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity
Jeff Schauer, UCB, History, Imperial Ark: British Wildlife Policy and the Colonial Governance in East and Central Africa
2008-2009
David Anixter, UCB, History, “I found Myself Quite Another”: Evangelical Conversion and the Birth of the Modern Self
Cameron Hill, UCB, Mathematics, Computability and Geometry in Finite Variable Logics
2009-2010
Robert Harkins, UCB, History, “Fear and Trembling”: Religious Violence and the Crucible of Conformity in the English Reformation
Darcy Irvin, UC Davis, English Literature, “In the Mind’s Eye”: Imagining Reading and the Victorian Novel
2008-2009
Robert Harkins, UCB, History, “The Cock’s Crow & the Sparrow’s Fall: Protestant Recantation During the Reign of Mary”
2009-2010
Benjamin Saltzman, UCB, Medieval Studies, “The Reflexivity of Forgetting in Alfred’s Pastoral Care”
2008-2009
Mircea Raianu, UCB, History, “At the Colonial Moment: Britain, Bengal, and the Eighteenth-Century Textile Trade”
2009-2010
Sarah Stoller, UCB, History, “Britain’s 1968: The Student Challenge to the Post-Imperial Consensus”
2008-2009
Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, Undergraduate UCB, Near Eastern Studies/History of Art
Caroline Shaw, Graduate UCB, History
John Lurz, Graduate UCB, English
Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Graduate UCB, Political Science
Jeff Schauer, Graduate UCB, History
Kahwee Lee, Graduate UCB, Architecture
Elizabeth Winsor, Undergraduate UCB, Art Practice
Amanda Jo Goldstein, Graduate UCB, Comparative Literature
2009-2010
Jamie Heine, Undergraduate UCB, Political Economy
Robin Lam, Undergraduate UCB, History
Kelly McSwain, Undergraduate UCB, History
Marisa Libbon, Graduate UCB, English
Matthew Nguyen, Undergraduate UCB, Rhetoric
Susanne Cowan, Graduate UCB, History of Architecture & Urbanism
John Lurz, Graduate UCB, English
Jamie DeAngelis, Graduate UCB, Comparative Literature
The Portuguese Studies Program at UC Berkeley provides grants to Cal professors for research involving the Portuguese community, offers fellowships to doctoral students embarking on dissertations focused on Portugal, and administers scholarships and fellowships for study at Cal to students of Portuguese descent. Fellowships and grants are supported by the Pinto-Fialon Fund.
2008-2009
Graduates
Felicia Dawn Simas Angeja Voator
Idalina Baptista
Patricia Maria Pacheco Canelas
Tiago Luis Lavandeira Castela
Diogo Gaspar Teixeira De Oliveira
Constança Esteves-Sorenson
Pedro Miguel Gardete
Norberto Abreu Varejão Guimarães
Fernando Jorge Costa Machado Machado
Beatriz Gomes Martin
Jose Alberto de Oliveira Pereira
Gisela Maria Sobral Pinheiro Rua
Haley Waterson
Undergraduates
Veronica Bettercourt
Debbie Rocha Borges
Brian DeFreitas
Rosalie Ennes
Darin Fontes
Katheryn Freitas
Erin Gaab
Justine Lynn Gomes
Christopher Gonzales
Luis Gonzalez
Bernardo Leal
Rafaella Nastasia Simas Lima
Andrew Joseph Machado
Jeffrey L. Menezes
Anthony Mercer
Krista Monigue Moita
Sergio Castro Pinheiro
Whitney Ramos
Michelle Rodrigues
Stephen Silveira
Daniel Gregory Sousa
Kate Evelyn Sousa
Jessica Rose Spinola
Sylvia Tangney
Davede Alexander Thompson
Michael Watson
2009-2010
Graduates
Felicia Dawn Simas Angeja Viator
Rui Dinis Bento
Tiago Luis Lavandeira Castela
Pedro Miguel Gardete
Patricia Soares Castro Lopes
Fernando Jorge Costa Machado
Beatriz Gomes Martin
Anthony Mercer
Gisela Maria Sobral Pinheiro Rua
Vinicius Guilherme Rodrigues Vieira
Undergraduates
Debbie Rocha Borges
Evan M. Corral
Brian DeFreitas
Matthew DeMartini
Steven DeMartini
Rosalie Ennes
Cristina Flores
Darin Fontes
Katheryn Freitas
Justine Lynn Gomes
Christopher Gonzales
Luis Gonzalez
Gina Holslag
Kit Lam
Bernardo Leal
Rafaella Nastasia Simas Lima
Jeffrey L. Menezes
Krista Monigue Moita
Sergio Castro Pinheiro
Whitney Ramos
Michelle Rodrigues
Brooke Sales-Lee
Francisco Sao Vicente
Stephen Silveira
Kate Evelyn Sousa
Veronica Sousa
Jeanette A. Tamayo
Sylvia Tangney
Davede Alexander Thompson
2009 Landscape Architecture 229
Bonnie Anglin
Julie Rubens Beagle
John Paul Delarroz
Andrea Elaine Gaffney
Trudy Beth Garber
Stacie Lyssa Jagger
Rachel Mary Kraai
Jessica Jennette Ludy
Mary Katherine Matella
Basmah K. Mourad
Clare Kathryn O’Reilly
Laura Katherine Tepper
Kristen Podolak
Joshua David Pollak
Rafael Silberblatt
Dan Sarrna
2009 Portuguese Language & Culture C170
Catherine Bradley
John Campbell
Cassandra Collins
Jennifer Connet
Christina Flores
Eugenie Giasson
Guillermo Gomez
Rachel Harrigan
Rebecca Juskovic
Gitanjali Khandagle
Adilene Lopez Valenzuela
Jaime Lopez
Nicolas Lopez
Stephanie Loville
Keith Miller
Duy Nguyen
Debra Pattison
Melissa Powers
Arturo Roque
Aurora Salas
Jeanette Tamayo
Jesse Tow
Kathryne Uraguchi
Samantha Walzem
Giiti Wassie
Tiffany Wu
Chontel Yarbrough
2010 Portuguese Language & Culture C170
Christine Alford
Andre Alt
Jessica Elise Becket
Melissa Bota
Ashley Brock
Tiago Castela
Asavari Devadiga
Kerry Fleisher
Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett
Sara Lopus
Gregory Newmark
Veronica Sousa
Laura Tepper
Natalia Valencia
Julie Ann Ward
